"From Common Reader to Canon: Memorialising the Shakespeare-Reading British Soldier During the First World War"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbm438/
Author:
	King, Edmund G. C.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	King, Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916-2016, 35–64. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_2)
DOI:
	doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_2
:
	King, Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916-2016
Annotation:
	Investigates how figure and image of "the Shakespeare-reading soldier" was utilized in book-trade and charity publicity in Britain during First World War. Considers how image of soldiers reading classics "contributed to larger discourses of national identty and cultural and aesthetic mobilisation." English summary, online. 
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Smialkowska, Monika
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare as Influence
WSB Update:
	Summer 2024
WSB Record Number:
	bbbm438